Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-10-27
High School Column.



The word fashion is an old name for
a certain disease of the horse and is al
luded to in the Tanning of the Shrew,"
where Petruchio's steed is said to be Gin
fected with the fashions" The CON-
plant is surely common one now in
America, but not among horses.
The longest syllable in English is the
word, strength.
The English language is supposed to
consist of about 10000, distinct words.
OF this number the average farm laborer
uses about 500, it is thought; while an
ordinary educated mans vocabulary
reaches to 5000 or 1000 words, 1t is
said. the Old Testament contains 5, 642
different words; Milton used about 5000,
and Shakespeare nearly $4,000.
Some farmers are cribbing corn and
report good crop this year.
Our gardener. Theodore Taylor, is
supplyingthemaTket with "Sib potatoes, !"
and beets weighing eleven pounds.
Miss Carrie Mckenzie, from Helena,
Wis, spent day in our school last
week.
Mrs. Adams and Mrs. Barnum were
present at rhetoricals last Friday.
Mr.. Ray Townsend had a car load of
bran and shorts shipped to him, and is
now supplying his neighbors.
Mr.. l. b Far is in Chicago on bus
mess.
Facts of physiology spider en-
closed in quilt and hung around the
neck will cure ague or other feyers.
Pupils, do you cease to be students
when you close the covers of text
book? Or, when striving to conquer
some difficult subject, is the stronger
half of your mind ever dwelling on some
trivial occurrence? As you walk home
from school, live your recitation over
again. and your bright knowing counte-
nance will be an impetus for the whole
class.
The principal member of our school
faculty is suffering with rheumatism as
the result of prolonged duck (?) hunt.
As the cause must be removed before
the disease will disappear, we
suppose this kind of sport has been
dispensed with, and the odor of linament
tells us that all possible is being done in
that line.
Philosophy class.
Teacher-"Why is it easier to tip over
a load of hay than one Of stone?"
Pupil-lf person should not happen
to land on his feet there is not as much
danger of breaking a limb in tipping
over the hay instead of the stone.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIII Mckenzie, of Ian
caster, were visiting relatives here last
week.
Misses Grace, May and Matte Millner
and Mr.. Willis Millner were guests at
Hon. r. NJ. Day, last week.
| MEAhOOo VI OIOD1INGs
We hear a great deal about Methods
of Teaching nowadays.
The subject is talked about at teachers
meetings, institutes and whenever ed
ucators meet.
Men have even written books about
it, but we seldom hear anything said
about Methods of Studying"
Why is it? Is not the subject of suf-
ficient Importance, or does everybody
know how to study? 1t certainly is OF
Importance, and l believe there is a
right and wrong way to study, and
since there is, we should learn the right
way and practice it.
The great complaint of students, es-
pecially those who attend High Schools,
is that they do not have time to get their
lessons as they should, but they have all
the time there is, and when we hear one
student say to another, Have you your
orthoepy lesson? And the other replies,
''Oh l have studied it over four or five
times, but l don't know much more
about it now than did BEFORE" or IL
studied it over seven times this fore
noon. but have forgotten most of it
now" we conclude. that time alone is
not to blame for all the trouble.
We can hardly realize how pleasant it
would be, if we could learn lesson by
reading it once.
What is the reason we cannot do this?
We read to get the thoughts that are
written then why can we not get all
the thoughts at the first reading?
think the reason is, we don't take
sufficient time to fix the ideas received;
we cannot wait, lin our haste), for the
slow process of assimilation.
II we all know how to study, why is
it that we have poor lessons?
1t cannot be because we do not study
them. We would not like to say that
any one would go to class without
having studied his lesson; then it must
be because we do not know how to study
that the lessons are not properly recited.
We should bear in mind that there are
AS many different kinds of study as there
are different branches to be studied.
We do not study Arithmetic in the same
way that we do history or spelling.
When studying we should remember to
keep in mind the branch we are study
ing.
When working problems in mathe-
mates we do not need to memorize
every problem; we should memorize
only the principles or rules which
govern them and apply these principles
to the problems as we work them. If
we are pursuing some study which re-
quires memorizing. we should not try to
remember every word that is found in
the book; but should get the thoughts
and mt them in our own lanourOa